WIT AND WINE:
A New Look at Ancient Iranian Ceramics
from the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation
Arizona State University Art Museum
October 16, 2004 through January 8, 2005
Spouted Bull Vessel, Northern Iran, Gilan province, 1200–800 BCE, 28cm x 36 cm x 15 cm, ceramic with burnished surface, acc. no. 82.4.2, courtesy of the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation.
Lecture by Dennis Oppenheim:
Tuesday, October 19, 7:30pm
Lattie F. Coor building, Room 170
Public Reception:
Friday, October 22, 7-9p.m.
The evening also marks the opening of the following exhibition:
Democracy in America: Political
Satire Then and Now
Dennis Oppenheim: Alternate Current
Gallery talk by Trudy Kawami:
Friday, October 22, 7:30 p.m.
Ceramics Research Center
WIT AND WINE:
A New Look at Ancient Iranian Ceramics from the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation
Wit and Wine is the first major exhibition of ancient Iranian ceramics
in more than a decade. Curated by Trudy S. Kawami, Ph.D., Director of
Research for the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, the exhibition features
forty-five sophisticated, beautiful and often amusing pieces that illustrate
the 5,000-year ceramic tradition that flourished in ancient, pre-Islamic
Iran until 100 BCE.
ASU Art Museum Presentation
Peter Held organized the ASU Art Museum participation in this touring
exhibition. Wit and Wine: A New Look at Ancient Iranian Ceramics from
the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation will be installed in the Arizona State
University Art Museum’s Ceramic Research Center location.
Duration
WIT AND WINE:
A New Look at Ancient Iranian Ceramics from the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation
(October 16, 2004 through January 8, 2005) is open at the ASU Art Museum:
Tuesday through Saturday from 10am to 5pm.
Support
Organized by the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, New York. Local presentation
is made possible in part by Friends of the ASU Art Museum and CLA.
ASU Art Museum Exhibitions
Selected past exhibitions at the ASU Art Museum
include:
Shared Passion: Sara and David Lieberman
Collection of Contemporary Ceramics and Craft
Humor, Irony and Wit: Ceramic
Funk from the Sixties and Beyond
Luo Xiaoping: Time Square Series
Embracing Night: New Ceramics by Farraday
Newsome Sredl
Ties That Bind: Ed Rossbach and Katherine
Westphal
The Edward Jacobson Collection of Turned-Wood
Bowls
Fragile Monuments: Paper Sculpture by Jyung
Mee Park
Contemporary Art Furniture:
Sam Maloof, John Cederquist, Wendy Maruyama
Frogs and Dogs: David Gilhooly and
Roy De Forest
More information contact John Spiak at spiak@asu.edu.
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